Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Greedflation and Sugarcane Landscaping in Taiwan: A Transcultural Reading of Lord of Formosa by Joyce Bergvelt
- Theodoor A.M. Richard
Chapter 2: Empire’s Nature: Economics, Ecology, and Formosan Tea in Nineteenth-Century Western Travelers’ Natural Histories
- Li-Ru Lu
Chapter 3: Oriental Beauty: The Tea Plantations and Global Tea Trade in 19th-century Taiwan
- Iping Liang
Chapter 4: From Resonance to Solastalgia: Tea Poems of Taiwan, ca. 1820-1920
- Stephen Roddy
Chapter 5: Brothers Locked in Strife: A Molecular Reading of Blood Camphor
- Ya-feng Wu
Chapter 6: Beyond Cold War Afforestation: Trans-scalar Imaginary of Casuarinas
- Weibon Wu
Chapter 7: Mangrove Taiwan: A Birdman’s View of an Island Environmental Identity
- Rose Hsiu-li Juan
Chapter 8: Politics of Femininity, Politics of Plants: The Roof Garden in Zhu Tianwen’s “Fin De Siècle Splendor”
- Pei-Wen Clio Kao
Chapter 9: “My head like a mushroom below”: Chen Kehua’s Vegetal Gothic and the Anthropocene
- Li-hsin Hsu
Chapter 10: Reclaiming the Commons: An Ambient Poetics in Jessica J. Lee’s Two Trees Make a Forest
- Kathryn Yalan Chang
Chapter 11: The Cultural Narrative of Tayal “Millet Ark”
- Yih-Ren Lin, Pagung Tomi, Hsinya Huang, Chia-Hua Lin and Ysanne Chen
Chapter 12: The Call of the Hyperobjects: Plants as Zones of Aesthetic Causality in Tao Lin’s Taipei
- Chingshun J. Sheu
Index
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